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So we've been reading Three Guineas in my Gender & War class, and if you haven't read it, you certainly should. It's short; it's Virginia discussing many of the same elements of power, money, and gender that emerge first in Room of One's Own (1926, I believe), only in a darker, less optimistic sort of way and with particular emphasis on war and fascism (since now it's 1938). The following is therefore a handful of un- or semi-connected thoughts that occurred to me during class -- you know how discussions are, they move so fast and so far afield that something terribly interesting can become irrelevant five minutes later, as you've all gone on to greener pastures by then -- on patriotism, Aristotle, Ireland, strippers, and human sacrifice. (I should put all those things in my lj interests. That would attract an interesting clientele.)
Also, I'm gearing up to write a long essay for a book that the Pagan Student Association here at UGA is preparing to publish; they asked me to do "something earthy," given that I'm one of the few active PSA members whose perspective is strongly goddess-religion oriented rather than Western Mystical Tradition oriented, and I guess they read that as "earthy" (although I'm about as much an ecofeminist as someone who can't be assed to recycle her Diet Pepsi cans can be). Anyway, I said, what the hell, I might write something about Celtic sovereignty goddesses, how would that be? And they said, great, we're writing that down! By which I suppose they meant, consider yourself committed, wench. So I'll be putting that together over the next few weeks, and you may see bits of it, completed and/or discarded, appear in this journal somewhere. Like some of this, for example.
( Does this GIP make me look smarter? )
Also, I'm gearing up to write a long essay for a book that the Pagan Student Association here at UGA is preparing to publish; they asked me to do "something earthy," given that I'm one of the few active PSA members whose perspective is strongly goddess-religion oriented rather than Western Mystical Tradition oriented, and I guess they read that as "earthy" (although I'm about as much an ecofeminist as someone who can't be assed to recycle her Diet Pepsi cans can be). Anyway, I said, what the hell, I might write something about Celtic sovereignty goddesses, how would that be? And they said, great, we're writing that down! By which I suppose they meant, consider yourself committed, wench. So I'll be putting that together over the next few weeks, and you may see bits of it, completed and/or discarded, appear in this journal somewhere. Like some of this, for example.
( Does this GIP make me look smarter? )
